REVIEW True Crime Collection: Real Murders Mysteries in 19th Century England
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
The Bravoes of Market-Drayton
The Holocaust of Manor Place
The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker
The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley
The Case of Mr. George Edalji
The Case of Oscar Slater
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Doyle is also known for writing the fictional adventures of Professor Challenger and for propagating the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. True Crime Collection: Real Murders Mysteries in 19th Century England
Interesting true cases discussed
In addition to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Challenger stories, he was also interested in true crime, especially when he saw what he perceived as a miscarriage of justice.
He wrote some well-reasoned arguments in an effort to convince police and the courts to reconsider the evidence when he saw that they were relying on something other than the facts and evidence. It made me wonder what success he had in this endeavor.
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The Writing,
The title of this book is misleading, more so putting Serial Killers in it; you’re not going to find any. This book covers more of what can only be called miscarriage of justice. Which is very clear on the six stories within the book, which each one is more on how the police and courts failed system. This is a good read and eye opening on how bad the system was back then. But by the time I hit the last story, I was starting to lose focus, because it felt the same thing was being repeated but within a different story.
Rundown
The book is cheap on Amazon, so for that reason I would say pick it up and give it a read. But remember it will be more about the flawed system, police, courts and people who are pointing the finger. This did not bother me, but if you going by the title of the book; you could be disappointed? Arthur Conan Doyle